Archive for 'Visual Arts'

By Jordan wright One of the most astonishing things about The Little Theatre of Alexandria is its ability to mount a production as complex and energetic as “The Full Monty,” a strapping show by Terrence McNally [...]

By Jordan Wright Here’s the grabber up front: Synetic Theater’s “A Trip to the Moon” is one of the most exciting, imaginative and flawless pieces of theater. I’ve seen in light years. If I used a [...]

By Derrick Perkins The hardest decision Rob Kaufman made in the nearly yearlong effort to restore the Old Town Theater was one of his earliest. “The biggest hurdle was … the change from not doing a [...]

By Jordan Wright Sisterhood is alive and well and coming to The Carlyle Club in Alexandria later this month. For one night only, five rip-roaring, tell-it-like-it-is women in “Girls Night: The Musical!” will take the city’s [...]

By Jordan Wright “The Soul Collector” brings us into the Cleveland, Ohio junk-strewn home of two black men, Darnell and his uncle Cedric, struggling under the burden of emotional scars and doomed dreams until a supernatural [...]

By Jordan Wright Warren Ives is a young, handsome and well-educated WASP on the rise. His budding career as a trader at Shearson-Lehman in Wall Street’s storied halls is all but guaranteed until he runs into [...]

Interview by Derrick Perkins Between an election cycle rife for lampooning and final say over what he puts to pen and ink, POLITICO’s editorial cartoonist Matt Wuerker admits he’s got it pretty good. So good, in [...]

How did a landscape by turn-of-the-century French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir end up sold for $7 at a West Virginia flea market? An alleged museum heist decades ago, for starters. The piece, a colorful depiction of a [...]